Jul 22, 2024

Dealing With It - Part 4


Beating the MAGA Hero Bot.

Don't take the bait. All they'll do is masturbate to you taking the bait.

Part 4

Part 5 coming soon.

2cm

2cm

From here⇥_________⇤to here measures out at 2 centimeters (on my desktop iMac).

Does any of this look like a 2cm bullet wound?



I know - I sound like a nutball conspiracy fantasist. I'm not. I am a skeptic, and I'm saying in spite of some pretty good analysis, there's still plenty reason to question the whole bullet wound story. Especially when the only medico we've heard from is Ronnie Jackson - a guy who's not even licensed anymore, and the same guy who told us Trump was 6' 3", 239 pounds, and just might live another 140 years on a diet of junk food and soda pop. I think there's more than enough room for doubt.

And this is Donald Trump - practically the patron saint of lyin' sacks of shit.

MAGA Rage Du Jour


The MAGA gang loves to bitch about how businesses should be left alone to make whatever decisions they see fit - and then they lose their shit when Cracker Barrel does exactly what MAGArubes say they should be allowed to do.

Two Things About This


C'mon, Stevie boy -
  1. There's a fair probability that you meant to capitalize "Destiny", which means you're saying Trump is the candidate preferred by the all-important Florida Stripper Demographic.
  2. "One of his own tried to kill him" isn't the flex you apparently think it is.

It's Time

We have to step up and meet this moment.


Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and to the U.S. Senate in 1972. As a senator, Biden drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden ran unsuccessfully for the 1988 and 2008 Democratic presidential nominations. In 2008, Obama chose Biden as his running mate, and he was a close counselor to Obama during his two terms as vice president. In the 2020 presidential election, Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate and defeated incumbent Donald Trump. He is the oldest president in U.S. history and the first to have a female vice president.

As president, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing. He proposed the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed into law in 2022. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. He worked with congressional Republicans to resolve the 2023 debt-ceiling crisis by negotiating a deal to raise the debt ceiling. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in the Paris Agreement. He oversaw the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that ended the war in Afghanistan, leading to the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban seizing control. He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine. During the Israel–Hamas war, Biden condemned the actions of Hamas as terrorism, announced military support for Israel and sent limited humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

I've said before that I've never been a Joe Biden fan.

I've also said I don't have to like the guy to agree with him, and to work with him.

And that's very much what politics has to be about.

I'm not looking to date the guy - we're not gonna take long soapy showers together, or pick out some nice matching furniture for the living room, or go for a walk on the beach in the moonlight holding hands.
  • Does he wanna do some of the things I think government should do?
  • Does he know enough about how you get those things done?
  • Is he a good and decent guy?
  • Will he tell me as much of the truth as possible without compromising security?
  • Do I think I can trust him enough to have the honor and the integrity to put it all down and walk away when it's time to do that?
Biden was faced with his George Washington test, and he rose to the occasion.

We know there are still some Republicans who would do the same - who have done the same - but either they're already out of office, or they're on their way out. If there are any left in seats of power, but they're not willing to risk their own positions to do what's right, then they're worthy of nothing but scorn. Let 'em rot.

Joe Biden's a better man than any of them ever dreamed of being.


Jul 21, 2024

Love The Ad

This is from a while back. It hits, and hard.




Democrats Playing With Fire

I get it. I really do - I get it. These are difficult decisions, in a time of even greater danger than usual.

But holy fuck - we have three months to engineer a win that puts us in a position to stomp the fuck outa the Plutocracy Project, and we're going to throw it all up in the air, hoping all the pieces land where we need them to land?

OK, Democrats. But if you fuck this one up, we can kiss the whole thing goodbye.


DEMOCRACY DIES
IN THE NEXT
REPUBLICAN
WHITE HOUSE

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There was always a timeless quality to Carlin's work.